Archaeologists Unearthed Something in Oregon That Doesn't Match What We Know About First Americans

#archaeology #preclovis #firstamericans It sits in a low ridge of volcanic rock in the high desert of south-central Oregon, a few miles outside a town of a few hundred people. Below it, the ground is flat, dry, and crusted white with alkali in places. Sagebrush runs to the horizon. But the hollows in that ridge weren't carved by wind. They were carved by waves, the shoreline of a lake that vanished long ago. And inside one of those hollows, buried beneath ash from a volcano that blew itself apart, archaeologists found the thing that cracked one of the most confident ideas in American science. It wasn't a skeleton. It wasn't a spearpoint. It was a piece of.. Sources : The 2008 coprolite paper — search: DNA from Pre-Clovis Human Coprolites in Oregon Science 2008 The 2012 Western Stemmed paper — search: Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points Paisley Caves Science 2012 The 2020 biomarker paper — search: Pre-Clovis occupation human fecal biomarkers Paisley Caves Science Advances 2020